COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Justice League of America 22 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Pacific Coast
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Certification #:
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4191359002
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #22 continues the story from Issue #21. In “Crisis on Earth Two,” the Justice League of America of Earth-One and the Justice Society of America of Earth-Two continue to fail to stop the combined forces of the Crime Champions, a collation of villains from both Earths. The Earth-Two Atom and Hourman go after the Fiddler, robbing a museum; Hawkman and Black Canary go after Wizard; Doctor Fate goes after the Icicle. Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow, and the Earth-One Atom go after Felix Faust, Batman and Wonder Woman go after Doctor Alchemy, and Superman and Aquaman go after Chronos who is stealing a clock from a lighthouse.
While both Green Lanterns seek to save the captured Flashes, the pairs and trios of heroes succeeds in capturing the various villains. The heroes soon find themselves trapped in cages in space just like the Flashes, due to a trap that is set off by the release of the Flashes, whose energies provide the power needed to spring the trap.
However their imprisonment is short-lived when the two Green Lanterns are able to shrink themselves down to sub-atomic size to get out of their prison at the Earth-One Atom's suggestion, and then use their combined power rings and the super speed of both Flashes to free the others. The Crime Champions realize what has happened, and the Fiddler thinks there must be an Earth-Three, to which they can escape, but they fail to find one, before the Justice League and the Justice Society defeat the Crime Champions. With their opponents defeated, both groups part company for their own worlds, taking their respective criminals back with them.
Our 9.8 is the first of three consecutive 9.8s (Issues #22-24) from the Pacific Coast Collection. In total, 12 books out of the first 50 issues in this set come from that collection. It is also the single highest graded example ever certified by CGC with no 9.6s in the census. We acquired the book from the 9/8/2022 Heritage Auction, in one of the most competitive auction for JLAs we have ever seen, as the book ended up going for more than 15 times the price from the internet portion of the auction. There is zero doubt that we drastically overpaid, as we paid more than we did for any book in this set, except for our #1 9.6. But it gave us highest graded copies of 24 of the first 25 issues. Needless to say, it will be a cold day in Hell before we could ever make money on this one, I just hope it remains single highest graded.*
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